http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52754
--- Comment #6 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-03-30 10:22:45 UTC --- We indeed should not create negative array indices (well, out-of-bound array indices). The issue why this happens is that we transform const unsigned int * ii = (const unsigned int *) &indexes[i]; *(ii + 12) to MEM[(const unsigned int *)&indexes + 12B][i_3]; via ii = &indexes[i]; D.3849 = ii + 12; D.3850 = *D.3849; forwprop1 (still ok): ii_9 = &indexes[i_3]; D.3850_11 = MEM[(const unsigned int *)ii_9 + 12B]; forwprop2 (bogus): D.3850_11 = MEM[(const unsigned int *)&indexes + 12B][i_3];